EE290C: High-Speed Electrical Interfaces

Reading and Background Material

Textbook

W.J. Dally and J.W. Poulton, "Digital System Engineering", Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Other books

• H. Johnson, M. Graham, High-Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic, Prentice-Hall, 1993. 
• S.H. Hall, G.W. Hall, J. A. McCall, High-Speed Digital System Design: A Handbook of Interconnect Theory and Design Practices, Wiley, 2000. 
• B. Razavi, Design of Integrated Circuits for Optical Communications, McGraw-Hill, 2002

Selected papers

We provide pdf files whenever possible (and authorized). These papers  may be accessed from the campus only. 

Ethernet

R. M. Metcalfe, D. R. Boggs, "Ethernet: distributed packet switching for local computer networks," Communications of the ACM, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 395 - 404, July 1976.

J. Everitt, J.F. Parker, P. Hurst, D. Nack, K. R. Konda, "A CMOS transceiver for 10-Mb/s and 100-Mb/s Ethernet," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 33, no. 12, pp. 2169 - 2177, Dec. 1998.

On-line copies of class-notes

Tool manuals and tutorials

• Tool  *.help files about all software are under the URL http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu.
• Hspice
• Matlab
• Cadence

Other readings

• Journal of Solid State Circuits
• International Solid-State Circuits Conference Digests of Technical Papers and Slide Supplements
• Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Digests of Technical Papers